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TIL that violets grow additional underground flowers that self-pollinate in order to increase the chance of successful reproduction

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16KYX TIL Wizard of Oz's dream plot was added because writers thought audiences are too sophisticated to accept Oz as straight-ahead fantasy.
ep6JJ TIL that despite the popular belief that SOS stands for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls", it actually doesn't stand for anything. SOS was developed because it was an easy sequence of letters to remember in Morse Code (three dots, three dashes, three dots).
l057 TIL: “Bicep” is a false singular. “Biceps” is the singular and “bicepses” is the plural.
8jgb TIL that because few men reproduce with many women, 2/3 of your ancestors are female, not ½. Also, overall throughout humanity 80% of females end up reproducing, while only 40% of males do
EwLd TIL since 1989, six-pack rings in the USA have been manufactured to be 100 percent photo-degradable, so the plastic will begin to disintegrate in just a few weeks,